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The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America by Jacob Levenson Publisher Comments As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins by Roy Wilkins Publisher Comments History will remember Roy Wilkins (1901–1981) as one of the great leaders of the twentieth century for his contributions to the advancement of civil rights in America. For nearly half a century—first as assistant secretary, also succeeding W.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment. Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments In "Rosa Parks, " "the best of the new generation of American historians" (Stephen Ambrose) brilliantly examines an American heroine in the context of the tumultuous time of the Civil Rights movement.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King JR.'s Mission to Save America: 1955-1968 by Stewart Burns Publisher Comments More than a biography, "To the Mountaintop" is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Uncle Tom Mania by Sarah Meer Publisher Comments Explores the public reception of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as an ideological battleground.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois Publisher Comments The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Book Club Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by Jean Mcmahon Humez Publisher Comments Harriet Tubman's name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children's literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez's... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Atlantic Sound by Caryl Phillips Publisher Comments Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream by Sheryll Cashin Publisher Comments On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, sounded the death... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in African American Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Negro in the Civil War by Benjamin Quarles Publisher Comments Quarles writes powerfully about the role of three-and-a-half million blacks in the South, who were impressed into non-combatant service building forts and entrenchments, working in factories and mines. In the North, black Americans fought with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bon by John Blake Publisher Comments Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity by John W Fountain Publisher Comments John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africana: The Concise Desk Reference by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Americans At War an Encyclopedia 2 Volumes by Jonathan Sutherland Publisher Comments A fascinating chronicle of the endeavors of African Americans who fought for their country: this book recounts their stories, their bravery, and their contributions.... (read more) List Price $185.00 Your price $40.33 (Used - Set Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches by Josh Gottheimer Publisher Comments Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Afro-Orientalism by Bill V Mullen Publisher Comments As early as 1914, in his pivotal essay "The World Problem of the Color Line," W.E.B. Du Bois was charting a search for Afro-Asian solidarity and for an international anticolonialism. In "Afro-Orientalism, Bill Mullen traces the tradition of revolutionary... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African American Communication: Ethnic Identity & Cultural Interpretation by Michael L Hecht Publisher Comments This book represents an ambitious and admirable attempt to portray 'how African Americans define themselves and membership in their group and how they perceive intra- and interethnic communication.' Given the paucity of comprehensive treatments of this... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sojourner Truth Publisher Comments This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in... (read more) Your price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Marthin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Fredrik Sunnemark Publisher Comments Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than the civil rights movement's most visible figure, he was its voice. This book describes what went into the creation of that voice. It explores how King used words to define a movement. From a place situated between... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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